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#pruning advice please! I thought this little #CherryTree was dead; is it too late to do a winter pruning? Our cold weather was about two week of frosty nights, last month. The buds are showing green, just.
Also, all the buds are at the very ends of the branches - *can* i prune them without starving it? Prune a fraction, maybe?
I’m trying to follow _Grow A Little Fruit Tree_, am at the 3rd year.
@clew Does it NEED pruning? Could you show a picture of the whole tree? It might just be wiser to leave it alone for the season to see how it grows. Can't be more specific without seeing the whole tree in context and what growing zone it's in. 
@clew Glad your tree lives! @richrollgardener raises some good ?’s. Most likely, there is no rush and you could wait a year w/o problem. Also, those round buds at the shoot tip look to be flowering buds. They are developmentally ahead of vegetative buds (normal for cherry), which are smaller and further down on that stem. If you removed all the shoot tips, the tree would still generate plenty of leaves from the vegetative buds. Of course, I wouldn’t suggest any cuts w/o more info on this tree.
Flowering vs vegetative bud timing is exactly what I needed! Thanks